Helienne

Donald Trump = Neville Chamberlain

Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.

How refreshing.

That's not an opinion, it's counting.

The company said AI tools had made it easier to generate spam content such as impersonations, ultra-short tracks and mass uploads of artificial music, which range from meditation instrumentals to duplicates of famous artists.

Spotify removes 75m spam tracks in past year as AI increases ability to make fake music Streamer to crack down on AI-generated spam by introducing filter to identify fraudulent uploads

Spotify said it would start rolling out a music spam filter to identify uploaders, tag them and stop the tracks from being recommended by its algorithm. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Tommy Robinson’s march was a drunken, coked-up mess He claimed the world was watching, but most of London barely noticed - and much of what was on view was appalling

“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... So true

Helienne Lindvall: Secure authors' rights in the AI Act, funding and a European strategy for music <p>Helienne Lindvall, President of the European Composer & Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) talks to CU about rising authors' challenges in the AI era and their focus on securing consent, remuneration and t...

"Key tools for implementing the AI Act such as the GPAI Code of Practice, the GPAI guidelines and the template for the summary of content used for training by AI providers are toothless and disappointing", @helienne.bsky.social states.

📰 Full interview: bit.ly/4mdM6bt

ECSA's June news is out!

🔵 #AI: joint letter to European Parliament’s JURI Committee
🔵 ECSA President @helienne.bsky.social joins meetings in New York and Biarritz
🔵 Joint call: increase the budget of #CreativeEurope
🔵 EFM, SoundTrack _Cologne, and much more!

➡️ Read: bit.ly/4lqZtVz

A grim reminder to all those who embrace “opt-outs” as a viable way of preventing unauthorized AI use. Even when backed up by technology, they are circumvented!

“Meanwhile, there’s an entire online ecosystem of tutorials about how to evade Cloudflare’s bot blocking tools aimed at web scrapers.”

“The writing that AI produces feels cheap because it is cheap. It feels simple because it is simple to produce. That is the whole point. AI is an enormously powerful tool, here to stay, with the capacity for real societal benefits—but the replacement of art and artists isn’t one of them.”

Am in NYC and reminded why it appears many in the US don’t care about what Russia is doing to Ukraine. No news station reported on last night’s bombings of Kyiv. It’s all about this manufactured “national crisis” in LA

We have a chance to prevent AI decimating Britain’s creative industries – but it’s slipping away | Beeban Kidron The government has doubled down on a plans that would allow mass cultural theft, but we are fighting it at every stage, says crossbench peer Beeban Kidron

As one MP said: “One of our greatest industrial sectors is on fire and ministers are having a picnic on the lawn with the arsonists.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was appointed to the post by now former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who herself was fired by President Trump earlier this week.

Morelle speculated that there was "surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk's efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models," in reference to the report released by the Copyright Office this week.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

The most powerful man in the world’s response to the escalating tension between India and Pakistan: “Those two countries have been fighting for centuries.” Pakistan was founded in 1947. Pay attention in your history classes kids

Sarah Glennane and James Morris from SCGI along with @helienne.bsky.social president of @ecsa.bsky.social met with Niamh Smyth TD, Minister of State in Department of Enterprise yesterday to discuss our deep concerns around music creators rights and generative AI platforms

Thanks for having me @screencomposersirl.bsky.social

In a court filing today, Google says "absent protection for intellectual property, there exists little reason to invest in developing software".

Yet they lobby governments to weaken IP law to allow unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work.

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“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.

“The Camp of the Saints” by Jean Raspail is still on the shelves. The 1973 novel, which envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries, has been embraced by white supremacists and promoted by Stephen Miller, a senior White House adviser.

Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.

Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.

Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Organizations representing millions of creators & rights holders have said the EU’s Code of Practice on AI is “completely unacceptable.”

The Code of Practice outlines how the AI Act should be implemented. But creators reject it because:

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… and instead require AI developers to license any copyrighted works before using them to train their AI models.”

Spot on.

committees.parliament.uk/publications...

The UK Parliament’s Culture, Media & Sport Committee sent a strong message to the government on AI training today:

“The Government should abandon its preference for a data mining exception for AI training with rights reservation model…”

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Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

Jack’s justification for wanting to “delete all IP law”.

No mention of what these better models for compensating creators are, or that creators *overwhelmingly* support copyright law.

Also copyright is not rent-seeking, it is an incentive to create.

I would advise to contact the Music Manager Forum in the UK

All I can say is, this is Liz Truss economics on steroids